Vision: To see every teen in Africa hear, understand, and respond to the Gospel through leaders who multiply disciple-makers in every nation.
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Go Live Dare was born out of a divine encounter – from the dusty streets of Johannesburg to the place where Jesus did life and ministry (Israel) leading on to the streets of Chicago where Donovan (Founder of Go Live Dare) first heard Greg Stier (Founder of Dare2Share) speak at Moody Bible Institute about Gospel urgency, D.L. Moody and the Great Chicago Fire.
Being there in that moment, something ignited inside of Donovan, a conviction that he had found the DNA of a Gospel Advancing Movement. That spark became a call … to raise a generation across Africa and beyond who would live the Gospel and multiply disciples.
For the past decade, Go Live Dare has been equipping leaders, mobilizing teens and gospelizing nations – seeing ordinary believers become extraordinary disciple-makers in schools, churches, and cities.
This is only the beginning of the story!
EVENT INFORMATION
Lead The Cause is a FREE 2-day youth conference designed to equip students to live boldly for Jesus and have Gospel-advancing conversations in everyday life.
Event Details:
📅 Friday, 29 May 2026
Doors Open: 17:30
Pre-event hangout & registration from arrival
Main Session Starts: 19:00
📅 Saturday, 30 May 2026
Gates Open: 08:30
Sessions Begin: 09:30
Conference Ends: 17:00
📍 Junction Church, Fourways
Faith becomes powerful when it moves beyond words. The Dares are practical challenges that help young people take bold steps of faith and build
Pray intentionally for three friends.
Serve someone with Christ-like love.
Tell your story and the Gospel story.
Lead a friend deeper in faith.
Every story is a spark in a growing fire. From Johannesburg to Lusaka, from Hout Bay to Nairobi, lives are being transformed as teens live the cause.
Every story reminds us — the Gospel still works. And the next story could be yours.
When leaders catch the vision, movements multiply. Movements rise and fall on leaders — those who see beyond events to lasting transformation. Through coaching, gatherings, and practical tools, Go Live Dare equips youth pastors and volunteers to build Gospel-advancing ministries where every teen owns their faith and shares it. We’ve been hosted by and partnered with churches including Urban Life Church, Rosebank Union Church, Every Nation (N1 City, Rosebank, Retreat, Hout Bay), Assemblies of God KwaThema, God First Church, Renew Church, Assemblies of God Amanzimtoti, Norwegian Settlers Church, and South City Church. Through these partnerships, we’ve trained and equipped thousands of students and leaders who now carry the Gospel to their cities and nations. As we mark 10 Years of Go Live Dare, we’re preparing for Lead the Cause Zambia 2026 — a gathering to celebrate, train, and send the next wave of disciple-makers.
We gather. We grow. We go.
Go Live Dare events are catalysts — places where leaders and students encounter the Gospel afresh and leave ready to multiply it.
Lead the Cause Zambia 2026: A continental week of evangelism and discipleship training as we celebrate a decade of Gospel impact.
Be the Few: Africa Summit 2026 – Johannesburg, May 28–31, 2026: An invitation-only leadership summit gathering disciple-making leaders from across Africa for vision, collaboration, and commissioning.
Your giving equips leaders, mobilizes teens, and Gospelizes nations.
For ten years, faithful partners have fueled Go Live Dare — enabling training, outreach, and Gospel advancement across the continent.
Our relationship with Dare 2 Share USA is not financial — it’s a friendship rooted in shared passion for the Gospel and a decade of encouragement, prayer, and partnership in the mission of reaching teens for Christ.
Your generosity sustains: Leader training, Youth events, Summits, and Digital media that amplifies the message.
Join the Fuel the Mission movement — your giving multiplies Gospel impact.
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GOD
We believe in one God, eternally and sovereignly existing in three persons: The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit.
GOD’S SON
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the second person of the Trinity. Being fully God and fully man, He offers salvation through His perfect life, sacrificial death, and victorious resurrection to all who believe in Him and receive His gift of grace.
GOD’S SPIRIT
The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity, who was fully active in the creation of the world and is fully active in the regeneration of those who put their faith in Jesus.
GOD’S WORD
Inspired by God and written by men, God’s Word is inerrant and true, making it our reliable authority in all things.
GOSPEL
The Gospel (“Good News of Jesus”) tells the whole story of creation, from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22. It is a clear and simple message that deeply and profoundly impacts those who receive it by faith.
In 1 Timothy 2:1, Paul told his young protégé Timothy, “I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf…”
In doing so, Paul was giving Timothy the most important key to building a Gospel Advancing culture in the church of Ephesus, where Timothy was leading at the time. In essence, he’s telling Timothy that “before we talk to others about God, we must talk to God about others.”
If we want our teenagers to reach their friends for God, we must train them to talk to God about it. Our research project demonstrated clearly that the teens who reached their peers for Christ prayed for their salvation.
I urge you, therefore, to first of all make intercessory prayer a top priority for your youth ministry. Why? Because God desires everyone, including teenagers, to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:3-4).
From our research, it was clear that teenagers who were equipped to reach their friends were far more likely to actually reach them. This seems obvious, but it’s surprising how few Christian adults, let alone teenagers, know how to share the Gospel effectively.
To start, teenagers need the answers to three questions:
“The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.” – Luke 6:40
If youth leaders aren’t sharing their faith, then adult volunteers aren’t likely to either. If the adult volunteers aren’t sharing their faith, then the student leaders aren’t likely to. If the student leaders aren’t sharing their faith, then the other students likely won’t either.
“And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.” – 2 Timothy 2:2
Paul discipled Timothy. Timothy discipled reliable people. Reliable people discipled others. This is what discipleship was like in the early Church. It’s what discipleship should be like today.
Multiplication is the name of the game.
Every youth ministry that was thriving in our research project had some sort of disciple-multiplication strategy in place. For them, it wasn’t just about making converts but multiplying disciples.
Jesus gave His disciples a bold vision in Acts 1:8. He told them to start where they were at (Jerusalem), spread the Gospel to the places they were comfortable (Judea) and uncomfortable (Samaria), and then take it to the uttermost parts of the world.
Our job is to help our teenagers do the same, equipping them to start with their circle of friends, then take the Gospel to their classmates and to teenagers they wouldn’t normally hang out with, and then to the world.
Do you have a bold vision for reaching your community with the Gospel? Do your teenagers have a bold vision for their schools? God told Habakkuk to, “write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it” (Habakkuk 2:2). Have you written down your bold vision? Have you made it clear to everyone? Are your teenagers running with it?
Are you measuring the right things? In ministry, we often measure our success by attendance instead of by impact.
Instead, make it your goal to measure spiritual impact, with gauges like new-conversion growth, baptisms, the percentage of teenagers growing in and sharing their faith, and the like. These are the kinds of things that the book of Acts records:
“The Lord’s hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord. News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. When he arrived and saw what the grace of God had done, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts. He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord. Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.” – Acts 11:21-26
Here we see both quantitative and qualitative results. People were coming to Christ and growing in Christ. These are the kinds of measures that matter.
7. Ongoing Programs Reflect a Gospel Advancing Ministry
The first-century Church’s programs reflected their priorities. They didn’t just talk about prayer—they prayed (Acts 4:31). They didn’t just talk about evangelism—they evangelized (Acts 5:41-42). They didn’t just talk about multiplying disciples—they multiplied disciples (Acts 6:7).
Show me your youth group program rundown, your weekly youth ministry schedule, and your annual ministry calendar, and I’ll show you your true priorities. I strongly encourage you to program intercessory prayer into your gatherings, evangelism training into your schedule, and things like Go Share Days and Dare 2 Share LIVE into your annual calendar.
Every teen, everywhere, hearing the Gospel from a friend.
